The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-03-17
MISSING LINKS.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord has a dress with
diamond buttons.

~esAs, "SiShS NoO pOuheiS'
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts,
has four Harvard graduates on his
staff.
Rosina Vokes is second cousin of
Lord Salisbury, and she is very proud
of the connection.
1t cost the United States govern
ment $S84,637 last year to pay the
Salaries and mileage of senators.
1t is complained in New York that
fashionable people slide into private
entertainments without paying.
Mr.. Labouchere says that Princess
Beatrice's baby 'sis no more prince
than any little brat in the Streets
There is on exhibition in the Office
of New York steamship company
model of an ocean vessel that cost $5,-
OO0
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is an old
friend of Lawrence Barret, and goes to
see him act whenever she has chance
to do SO.
There is law in Switzerland which
compels every newlymarried couple to
plant trees shortly after the ceremony
OF marriage.
Miss Edgerton, the only woman who
has received doctors degree from
Columbia college, is passing a part of
the winter in Boston.
England seems to believe that some
country may need bombarding before
long, and she is getting ready for any
fhipr that may hannan
One of the leading questions in New
York city now is whether people who
reside in rented houses should be con-
sidered as .'of society"
Mrs. Bradley Martin, of New York.
wears. such a big diamond star on her
head that she looks like travelling
dew-drop at evening parties.
Ms. Cleveland says '.if you please"
to her domestics, and thanks them
when she is properly served. 1t is
sweet music to attending ears.
Somebody has discovered that Oliver
Goldsmith's grave and monument are
i'm sad state of neglect. His fame.
however, is very well preserved.
Queen Margaret of Italy does all her
shopping in person, with no more fuss
than any of her subjects, and goes
early in the day to avoid the crowd.
A New York society woman has had
the check sent her for magazine
article handsomely framed and hung
up i'm her bondoir. 1t called for $2.95.
1t is said that person can live
cheaper, and at the same time more
aristOcratically. in Geneva, Switzer-
land. than in any other city in the
world.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania. says he pardOned 125 men out
of Jail, all of whom enlisted under
Farragut. Not one of them survived
the war.
General Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur"
is soou to be published in German,
having been translated by a Catholic
priest living st Lafayette, Ind. Cen
eral Wallace home.
1t will require $4,000 feet of lumber
to manufacture boxes for the transpor.
tation of the records of the military
headquarters from Phoenix, Arizona
territory, to Los Angeles. Cal.
DIR. ". Ii. Hale, an Edinburgh ply
sician, who is travelling in this country,
has 81 cane which he SAYS cost s. 800.
The head contains over three pounds
of 18-carat gold, and is mounted with
sixty-fre diamonds.
Col. Frederick Grant has small
aquarelle painting in Il gilt frame. 1t
represents group of Indians and
shows evidence of artistic skill and
training. 1T is one of series paint
ed by my father" said Col. Grant to a
reporter.
Judge Greene, of Washington terri
tory, refuses to grant an Indian wo-
man a divorce from her husband, at
Snobomish court, because the parties
had not properly severed their tribal
relations, and were therefore not with
in his jurisdiction.
Mr.. Edmund Hersey holds that there
should be Il clause in the Experiment
Station act requiring as far as possible
important experiments to be photo
graphed, and copies to be deposited at
Washington, where they may be COM
pared with each other.
Pinekney Robertson. bright mulat-
to, who during reconstruction days in
South Carolina was a power in politics
there, and while lobbying at the state
capital held four different clerkships.
each one paving him 81 day, is now
a porter in Atlanta at 81 week.
A new way of fastening on ladies'
hot "a is 4. h01. tha IF hn IF
in gold hoops and have the hat strings
tied through them. Thus, step by step,
we tread the pathway to perfection,
and ere the darkness of death enyelops
all the world, man will have utilized
his nose in pulling on his boots.
Some merchants at Rock Island, H..
oppose the free delivery of mails in
that city on the ground that when peo-
pile visit the psst-office three or four
times day the streets present live
iier appearance and more purchasing is
done than if their letters were delivered
free.
A new French shell, filled with
meienite, is said to be hundred times
more powerful than the shells filled
with powder The strongest fOrtifica=
tions would crlImble TO pieces when
attacked with this destructive shell.
1t is not explosive in handling. and the
shells do not explode till they come in
contact with the object aimed at.
Mr.. Labouchere, the free lance
among, London gossips, makes note of
an instance of the queens thrift. The
FIVE Arab horses sent to her majesty
by the sultan of Muscatt were worth
as much as though their hoofs had
been of gold--say $17 500. What the
queen sent to the sultan cost her $2,-
500.
Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt. whose
1--we" was called by the London Times
s.the finest picture by a woman in the
Academy" and whose portraits of
James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wen
dell Holmes are highly CONNER nded, is
about to visit this. her native country.
and to have an exhibition of her works
in New York.
.aCoaLOil Johnny" who was made
immensely rich by the discovery of
petroleum, and who scattered his